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Israel’s official election count still covered only a tiny slice of the electorate: 94,098 ballots from 302 polling stations, equivalent to about 1.3% of the 7,331,981 registered voters listed by the Central Elections Committee. The early count is not representative of the final result, and the figures can shift as more ballots are added.
The Central Elections Committee’s national results page, marked as of 2:11 a.m. Wednesday in Israel, or 8:11 p.m. Tuesday Eastern time, showed 94,098 ballots recorded. Of those, 93,680 were valid and 418 were invalid. The page was checked at 8:27 p.m. Eastern.
Within that small tally, Likud had 24,929 votes, or 26.61% of valid votes counted, followed by Yashar with Eisenkot at 16,009 votes, or 17.09%. Naftali Bennett’s list had 8,368 votes, or 8.93%.
Those percentages describe only the ballots included in this early official count. They should not be read as final nationwide vote shares, seat totals or a coalition majority.
- Likud: 24,929 votes, 26.61%.
- Yashar with Eisenkot: 16,009 votes, 17.09%.
- Bennett’s list: 8,368 votes, 8.93%.
- Yisrael Beitenu: 7,143 votes, 7.62%.
- Otzma Yehudit: 6,799 votes, 7.26%.
- The Democrats: 5,856 votes, 6.25%.
- Religious Zionism and Zehut: 5,750 votes, 6.14%.
- Shas: 4,979 votes, 5.31%.
- United Torah Judaism: 4,232 votes, 4.52%.
- The Joint List: 3,326 votes, 3.55%.
These are the ten leading lists in the displayed partial table, not every list on the ballot. All percentages above use valid votes counted as their denominator.
The count-to-electorate comparison is not turnout: it measures ballots so far included in the tally against registered voters, not how many people actually voted. The committee warns that the results may change until final results are published by November 4. The expanding count is a separate record from election-night exit polls: it contains ballots reported by polling stations, but it is still too incomplete to establish a winner or a governing majority.
JBizNews Desk | Jerusalem
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